Verda Rowe

Book 4 of 8: Thistlewick Hollow The morning after her wedding, healer Wren Ashcombe receives an impossible patient: a field mouse transformed into flawless stone, fresh soil still clinging to its paws.

One wounded griffin found a sanctuary. Now an entire colony needs one. Wren Ashcombe has begun rebuilding her life beside Cormac Vane at the Grumbleback Sanctuary. But an injured griffin from High Crag brings evidence of a larger danger a migrating colony is being poisoned by skyglass contamination.

Book 3 of 8: Thistlewick Hollow The mooncalves are not lost, injured, or trapped. They are waiting. When a silent herd crosses the sanctuary before dawn, flowers spring from their glowing hoofprints and Thistlewick Hollow’s carefully planned Lantern Festival begins to unravel.

Book 1 of 8: Thistlewick Hollow Every wounded creature deserves a sanctuary. Wren Ashcombe is about to learn that healers do too. When gifted healer Wren Ashcombe loses her licence and her place in the capital, an unexpected inheritance sends her to Thistlewick Hollow.

Book 7 of 8: Thistlewick Hollow FIVE OLD ROADS TURN INWARD. HOME CANNOT BE ONE PLACE'S JOB. At first light, the five grooves beneath Grumbleback Sanctuary are still only evidence. No voice has spoken. No road has opened.

Book 5 of 8: Thistlewick Hollow AN ORCHARD THAT RIPENS IN WINTER SHOULD BE A BLESSING. At the first hard frost, the pears at Rook Orchard are warm in the hand. Blossom, ripe fruit and blackened seeds appear on the same trees, and Wren Ashcombe knows the season has gone wrong.

A ROAD CAN SHORTEN DISTANCE. IT CANNOT MAKE A PROMISE TRUE.

Book 8 of 8: Thistlewick Hollow Some wonders are only pretending to be whole. An injured dormouse. A ribbon that conceals its own damage. An invitation that briefly changes “come marvel” to “come mend.” Wren Ashcombe has questions before she ever reaches the Tatterlight Fair.